Contact us:
St Matthew's Presbytery
19 Townsend Avenue
Clubmoor
Liverpool
L13 9DL
Tel.: 0151 2261828
(Office Hours: Monday-Friday,
10.00 am - 12.00 Noon & 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm)
(To be arranged with Fr Conor after 10.00 am Sunday Mass)
Sacrament of Reconciliation:
Wednesdays 6.15 - 6.45 pm
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament:
Wednesdays 6.00 -7.00 pm
Welcome to our parish website including frequently updated information on the Parish and its activities.
The links, along the left hand side of this page, give you the opportunity to keep up to date via our parish newsletter and have a look at some views of the Church through the year.
In this website we have kept to, FX Velarde's, the Church Architect and designer, colour scheme of green and gold. A visitor to our Church will see these colours dominate the Sanctuary in the Baldachinno and Altar, reflected throughout the Church in the Stations of the Cross, the floor and ceiling. The Parish was established in 1922 and the Church completed in 1930 and the influence of the Art Deco movement can clearly be seen in the figures on the altar and of the stations of the cross. The Church is also significant architecturally in the arches, all of which are Romanesque rather than the gothic form preferred in earlier Churches.
Come and see! If you do so you will find more than just interesting art but a warm welcome from the people of this area of the City of Liverpool. Having a particular affection for this parish, it being the first Parish in the city I ever worked in when I was a student ten years ago, I am delighted to have been asked to be its Parish Priest in 2005 and find on my return the same welcome and willingness to proclaim the Gospel in word and deed I experienced those years ago.
Apologies: Joe McGunigle, Kath Shaw, Paula O’Toole.
Women’s Group: Ladies to collect for White Flower Appeal, weekend 28th/29th January.
Confirmations’ Programme - Dates agreed:
Year 6: January 26th, February 2nd, 9th – Confirmations, here at St. Matthew’s Thursday 23rd February at 4pm
Year 5: March 1st, 8th, 15th – Confirmations, here at St. Matthew’s Thursday 29th March at 4pm
Year 4: April 19th,26th May 3rd – Confirmations, here at St. Matthew’s Thursday 10th May at 4pm
Year 7: May 17th,24th,31st – Confirmations at the Cathedral, date to be confirmed.
Fr. Conor to meet with Confirmation Team, Thursday 16th February at 7pm.
Prayer Group: Next meeting – Monday 23rd January at 7pm.
Altar Servers: Arrangements underway for future social activity.
Santa Dash: Still collecting, final total to be published in newsletter.
North Liverpool Food Bank: Fr. Conor agreed that this can become an ongoing project within our parish.
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Candlemas: Thursday 2nd February at 9.15am, with school.
Lent: Ash Wednesday, 22nd February: Masses at 7am and 9.15am (School). No evening Mass.
Friday mornings during Lent: Mass at 7am.
Further details of Pastoral Area events and Stations of the Cross available shortly.
Easter: Vigil Mass – Easter Sunday, 8th April at 5am. Easter Day Mass at 9am. Baptisms at 10.30am
Liam Collister’s Ordination:
Sunday 8th July at 3pm here at St. Matthew’s.
1st Mass and 1st Blessings Monday 9th July at 7.00 pm in St Matthew’s.
Arrangements and organisation throughout the parish during the weeks before to ensure all is well presented.
Congratulations: The Forum congratulated Fr. Conor on his recent appointment as Chairman of the Council of Priest’s.
Next meeting: Monday 5th March at 7pm.